But then we thought: first and foremost, we’re about literature, and literature is like religion. From it our Weltanschauungen spring forth. Literaryness qua Literaryness is more than just words on a page. It’s aesthetic sensibility, cultural awareness, creative sensitivity, and knowing how to wear a funny hat. As such, over the next year (years?), you will see Anobium continuing to expand its ‘literary scope.’

…and so forth.

2. The Black Road Project. According to some people, the world is ending (or beginning anew) this December. Anobium’s stance on existence is that it is an endless exercise in the arrangement of deck chairs on a sinking ship. The Black Road Project is about this; the end of the world, which is fast approaching. Fact, fiction, and inbred versions thereof.

The experience of a sudden urge to jump when in a high place has been speculated to be associated with suicidal ideation; however, scant data has informed this speculation. We termed this experience the high place phenomenon (HPP) and proposed that it stems from a misinterpreted safety signal (i.e., survival instinct).

Patients were all taking part in alcohol treatment programmes, but some were given a single dose of LSD of between 210 and 800 micrograms. For the group of patients taking LSD, 59% showed reduced levels of alcohol misuse compared with 38% in the other group.

8. Pataphysical Essays by Rene Daumal. Great new book and something of a lost treasure. It’s like the philosophy of Anobium. To know X = to know (Everything – X). Book is due out soon. Order it NOW. (Our full review is forthcoming.)